God it’s so painful when something that’s so closeIs still so far out of reach— Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, American Girl September conjures up images of red and gold leaves in crisp air. I thought of their possibility while sneaking another swim in water that believes it’s still summer. But what we linger on…
Well, I see the end of the rainbowBut what more is a rainbowThan colors out of reach?— The Avett Brothers, Swept Away There’s a fine line between being satisfied with what you’ve got and yearning for what you haven’t got. I follow, and thus am constantly teased by, Aurora Borealis updates. I happen to live…
“With each encounter with truth one draws nearer to reaching communion with it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet What resonates? Doesn’t it change moment-to-moment as we ourselves change? As the world offers lessons, from subtle and brutal? Just what is our truth, our first principle? We try to arrive by sorting….
He went to ParisLooking for answersTo questions that bothered him so— Jimmy Buffett, He Went to Paris “As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson And now I will tell you the truth.Everything in the worldcomes. At least, closer. And, cordially.— Mary Oliver, Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It…
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.It offers me its busyness. It does not believethat I do not want it. Now I understandwhy the old poets of China went so far and highinto the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.— Mary Oliver, The Old Poets of China We’re all busy, and compounding our…
Slow down, you crazy childAnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhileIt’s all right, you can afford to lose a day or twoWhen will you realize, Vienna waits for you? — Billy Joel, Vienna A traveler seeks magic in places big and small, and in mountains and cities alike. Two weeks of…
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Taking the train between Salzburg and Vienna I’m reminded of…
“For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!…A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not–but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes–bad, if he always stays in the same…
In the empire of the sensesYou’re the queen of all you surveyAll the cities all the nationEverything that falls your wayThere is a deeper world than thisThat you don’t understandThere is a deeper world that thisTugging at your handEvery ripple on the oceanEvery leaf on every treeEvery sand dune in the desertEvery power we never…
If you can’t decide what you want to doIf you can’t stand what people say to youIf you can’t see when your eyes are open wideIf you ask yourself what your doing and there’s no replyGet outside— Robert Palmer, Get Outside Sometimes you reach the end of the day and you don’t know what you’ve…
